If you’ve ever attempted to lose weight and struggle to be successful, read the below 5 reasons why this might be happening, and learn how to become a leaner golfer quickly.

1. Don’t Listen To Bad Advice.

The worst thing you should do is listen to uncredible sources and read all those gimmicky diet books out there. Throughout the last couple of decades we have gone from calorie-restriction diets, to high carb diets, to fat-free diets. Have they worked for you? If you’re like most of the country the answer would be no.

If you eat a high amount of carbohydrates, you better be doing a high amount of exercise to burn it off or you’ll store every extra calorie in the form of fat on your body. Pick your spot and there it goes!

Weight Loss Tip: Cut back on those carbs! That means the pastas, rice, potatoes w/butter or sour cream, and breads. I’m not saying cut them out completely, but portion-control them better, and you’ll see your fat loss explode.

2. The Fat-Free Frenzy.

People (and golfers) have this mentality that if it’s fat-free, you can eat all you want. Wrong! Break it down to the basics. Doesn’t matter if it’s fat-free or not, if you eat more of it, the total number of calories is way too high meaning weight gain not weight loss.

You’re being mislead by food labels and marketing that the fat-free foods is less in calories. Check out the per serving of any of these foods and it’ll show you they are not much less than traditional snacks and foods.

Weight Loss Tip: Eat more normal foods. Now don’t go hog wild here. Make good decisions and watch your serving size per meal, but don’t worry about fat as much. The ONLY fat to avoid is saturated fat.

Good fats are needed for many important life processes. And good for hair, nails and skin. I know what you’re thinking. You don’t care about them…and I hear ya, but just take it at face value.

3. Your Most Important Meal: Breakfast

You’ve probably heard me say this before, or at least read it some where. Don’t skip breakfast. Ever! There have been numerous studies including one at the University of Massachusetts that showed people who skipped breakfast were five times more likely to become obese than people who ate breakfast daily.

The main reason for this is that people who skip breakfast get famished at work, then crave very bad foods high in sugar. This is a nightmare when it comes to weight loss. You’ll never win.

Weight Loss Tip: Eat breakfast within the first 30 minutes of waking up. The worst case scenario is grabbing a nutrition bar and eating that as a meal replacement. This is 100% better than skipping breakfast.

4. Don’t Eat Too Much Sugar

Sugar is in most of our foods except organic foods like fruits and vegetables, although there is moderate sugar in fruits as well. Sugar allows the conversion of calories to fat much easier, causing a dramatic rise in bodyweight and fat. It also creates an extreme imbalance in your blood sugar levels which directly affects your ability to metabolize (digest) your food efficiently.

Weight Loss Tip: If you’re drinking soda, dump it ASAP! Soda is loaded with sugar. In fact, you might as well drink raw sugar and it’s about the same. Not only soda, check your food labels for your cereals and snacks. Many times you’ll see one of these labeled healthy, but in reality many of them have MORE sugar than the regular snacks .

5. Don’t Skip The Weights. Here’s come a little bit of effort. Cutting back your calories, specifically carbohydrates isn’t the only prerequisite for rapid weight loss. You’ve got to add some golf-specific resistance training to your weight loss program.

Studies at the University of Connecticut showed that men that were overweight and put on a 1500 calorie diet did one of three things. The first group did not do any exercise at all. The second one did cardiovascular exercise 3 days per week, and the last group did both cardio AND weights. The results were:

They all lost 21 pounds. But the ones who lifted weights dropped 5 more pounds of fat than the other two groups. Why? Their weight loss was nearly all fat, while the other two groups lost just 15 pounds of lard, in addition to several pounds of muscle.

Weight Loss Tip: Implement three 30 minute strength training sessions each week into your new fat-loss program. Commit to it and don’t deviate. Stick with it! Lost muscle is eventually replaced with fat giving you the look of flab and not tone.

I’m not talking about muscle as in bodybuilding. I’m referring to functional muscle to blast long drives and tear up your foursome on a daily basis .

If you want a straight forward program to lose fat fast and forever, take a look at my Weight Loss Guide For Golfers ebook .

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